CCIE Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 334 358
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 +153
Contract jobs citing CCIE 25 48 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 53
10th Percentile £360 £350 £252
25th Percentile £450 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £658
90th Percentile £675 £768 £698
England median daily rate £550 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,580 4,043 4,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.76% 25.15% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 2,581 3,285
10th Percentile £358 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £770 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 66 95
10th Percentile £18.99 £18.13 £19.10
25th Percentile - £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.30% -31.20% +13.68%
75th Percentile £36.88 £57.13 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.63 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CCIE job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 7 £625 -10.71% 5
West London -1 2 £405 -19.00%
East London - 1 £675 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (4.00%) IaaS
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.00%) PaaS
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (76.00%) BGP
2 16 (64.00%) OSPF
3 15 (60.00%) Firewall
4 8 (32.00%) Network Security
5 7 (28.00%) Multicast
6 6 (24.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (24.00%) LAN
6 6 (24.00%) VXLAN
6 6 (24.00%) WAN
7 5 (20.00%) MPLS
7 5 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 5 (20.00%) Unicast
8 4 (16.00%) DNS
8 4 (16.00%) VPN
9 3 (12.00%) BIG-IP
9 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (12.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (12.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Network Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
7 1 (4.00%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Network Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Jinja
2 1 (4.00%) eBPF
2 1 (4.00%) gRPC
2 1 (4.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (4.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Change Control
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 5 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Business Case
3 4 (16.00%) Change Management
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Runbook
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (8.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 7 (28.00%) JNCIE
4 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) JNCIP
6 3 (12.00%) CCSE
7 2 (8.00%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (4.00%) CCDE
8 1 (4.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (4.00%) CISSP
8 1 (4.00%) JNCIS
8 1 (4.00%) MCITP
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) KVM
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Cisco
2 12 (48.00%) Arista
3 6 (24.00%) Juniper
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (16.00%) F5
6 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (12.00%) Remedy
6 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (8.00%) NVIDIA
7 2 (8.00%) VMware
8 1 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (4.00%) Mellanox
8 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.00%) Wind River